It is actually called sick man's food, but it is actually much more than that! It is analogous to pongal/pongali of the South but not equal--Other than the facts that it is dry, and black- pepper seeds are not used, it is not generally used for auspicious occasions. It is for one of those cozy evenings when it is a bit cold and drizzling outside, everyone is home early quite coincidentally and has an air tranquility and contentment around him/her. Believe me when I say there is no antidote to the pleasure got from having "garam garam" Khichdi along with saar (charu in telugu).
There is a curious "fact" (if you will) surrounding Khichdi... no matter how cleverly you estimate the amout of rice and daal and cook it, it is always insufficient for the lot. Someone is always unsatisfied looking eagerly down the empty vessel. The de ja vu happened happened for the nth time the other day when my friend's wife made Khichdi. The interesting thing was, I told them the funda about Khichdi before we started to eat and still it happened.
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Nice change of template...i like...except all the text is too far away to the right and overlapping the sidebar...
Coming to 'khichdi' i seem to have eaten 2 versions..one which you just described, dry, garam with saar on the side..the other more like bisibelebath..all daal and rice and spices cooked together. The 1st version was at the Mahindra & Mahindra canteen at Zaheerabad...and it would always run out before everyone had eaten it! We would always hurry there ASAP after punching our cards in the morning or we wouldn't get it :D. The second version, of course, always remains...especially when some of my former housemates cooked it!!
ha ha...man..looks like you have turned to complete vegetarian( or if u r already a fulltoo veggie..u must be celebrating it..green coloured blog..with kichidi..
It is an aranya anyway right... so I figured green is the colour for me.
Chandu-- I can see the blog as it is... the text didnt move to the right... I am not sure what the problem is.. (may be since we are in different contries, you may have to type in the ISD code to see the site right! :D)
Its the first time im here! Your blog looks super coool!! Khichdi and charu -- you made me crave for them
Hi Ravi! Welcome to my blog!
Thanks for your comment. I actually changed the blog template only after I saw you changed yours.
Kedar.
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